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CHICAGO LOCATION — ASSOCIATION BUILDING 



TRAINED LEADERS 



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PREPARED BY ^ 

FRANKLIN W. GANSE 
HENRY H. MARCUSSON 
FRANK H. BURT 



" In This Day Trained and Consecrated Men are the 
Human Necessities of Every Great Christian Work, and 
IN None More than in the Work of the Young Men's 
Christian Association." — Judge Selden P. Spencer, St. 
Louis, Mo., Circuit Court. 




ISSUED BY THE SECRETARIAL INSTITUTE 
AND TRAINING SCHOOL OF YOUNG xMEN'S 
CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS, CHICAGO, 1901 



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The Secretarial Institute and Training School of 

Young Men's Christian Associations. 






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*'to exhibit and emphasize the growth of the 
American Young Men's Christian Associations in a 

SUCCESSFUL leadership, COMPOSED OF BOTH LAYMEN AND 

TRAINED EMPLOYED OFFICERS." This is Said by the Inter- 
national Committee, in its Jubilee Convention announceme^it, 
to be one of the chief purposes of the commemoration. 

As a part of that exhibit , The Secretarial Institute aiid 
Training School of Young Men's Christian Associations, of 
Chicago and Lake Geneva, presents this account of its share 
ift the training of employed and volunteer Association leaders. 

Chic ago t May, igoi. 



^^There is no place in the modern world for 
the unskilled; no one can hope for any genuine suc- 
cess who fails to give himself the most thorough 
technical preparation^ the most complete special 
education. Good intentions go for nothings and in- 
dustry is thrown away if one cannot infuse a high 
degree of skill into his work. The man of medium 
skill depends upon fortunate conditions for success: 
he cannot command it^ nor can he keep it. The 
trained man has all the advantages on his side; the 
untrained man invites all the tragic possibilities of 
failure,'' — Hamilton W. Mabie. 




JAMES H. ECKELS 

JOHN V. FARVVELL, JR. JAMES L. HOUGHTELING 

SELDEN P. SPENCER 



Trained Leaders 

The need of training for success in life is now uni- 
versally recognized. 

The easy performance of the special tasks of a man's 
chosen life work comes only after complete understand- 
ing and repeated drill. When the training is perfect, 
all routine matters, of whatever difficulty, are performed 
with a skill which is unconscious, and the faculties 
reserve their force and initiative for emergencies. 

All the obvious arguments for training for any success 
in life apply with unusual force to the leader in work for 
the making of Christian manhood. The leader must not 
only be a better man than the follower, he must also be 
abetter man than the commander or the manager, for to 
lead is more than to command or manage. 

Successful work for the development of a strong 
young manhood touches every side of life. Young 
men are all important to the world and the church. 
They are of all sorts and conditions. Their perils are 
imminent. Expert ability alone can avoid 'unnecessary 
errors and leave the worker the best use of his natural 
powers in the critical opportunities continually presented. 
A great part of the work is done upon, with or through 
volunteer committeemen who are themselves, in most 
cases, chosen because they are leaders in their own fields. 
The man who leads such men must be a trained 
specialist. 



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The General Secretary was, in the early days of the 
American Associations, the only paid officer, but the 
widening work has created from time to time the direc- 
torships of the Physical, Educational, Religious, and 
the Boys' sections. 

As the Associations have increased in number, strength, 
and property, the demand for more and stronger em- 
ployed officers has grown. The need for their better 
equipment was long ago recognized. They were first 
educated in the actual work. Such a course was thorough, 
but slow and expensive — especially to the work. Yet 
many leaders have had no other training, because in 
their day there was no other. 

Outlines of study which have culminated in the 
Association Hand Book, came later, and with attend- 
ance on conventions and conferences; and practical 
work in subordinate capacities, constituted a much more 
logical preparation. 

For some years men were trained in prominent Asso- 
ciations, by taking courses of study and work under their 
secretaries; in some cases moving about from city to 
city till the course was finished. 

But at last the natural thing occurred. Special 
schools were founded to fit men for these special profes- 
sions, and the example of other religious and secular 
callings was followed, with variations to suit the special 
ends in view. 

The volunteer workers in the Young Men's Christian 
Associations have gotten their training in actual work, by 
reading, and by attendance upon brief conventions. 
But the work has become so varied, so widespread, so 
complicated that they, too, feel the need of special train- 
ing, and the same institution which does the one work 




WILLIAM FRASER MC DOWELL 
RICHARD C. MORSE t. S. MC PHEETERS 

D. A. BUDGE 



TRAINED LEADERS 7 

should be prepared to do the other. Some future 
International convention announcement (see Preface) 
may be able to write the word *' trained " before the ** lay- 
men " as well as the '* employed officers/' 



" I am certain that there was never more necessity than at 
present for a thoroughly trained body of men to do the work of 
the Young Men's Christian Association. The leaders who 
accomplish results are those who have schooled themselves in 
the underlying principles and beliefs of the Bible, and have 
added to such schooling a practical knowledge of the needs 
and difficulties of young men. The school that fits them for 
such a work must always be of service to the Association, and 
the men who avail themselves of its benefits prove the most 
efficient in accomplishing good. A trained leadership in 
Association work is as essential as a trained leadership in the 
field of education, science, or public life. Without it, all 
progress comes to a standstill." . 





President Commercial National Bank, Chicago. 

" Lord Salisbury said to Lord Roberts just before the latter 
started to South Africa, *We are finding out that this war 
depends upon the generals.* That tells the whole story for 
governments, and churches, and Associations. I have been a 
careful observer of Association work in many of its departments 
for years, and am persuaded that, under God, the strength of 
the work in city or college depends upon the strength of 
the men in charge of it. The quality of leadership is 
necessary; the weakling always fails. Training is necessary 
to keep the strong man in right paths, and to give him 
right methods. The Young Men's Christian Association 
has a much larger work to do in the near future than 
it has ever done. The student work alone is so vast and 



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important as to call for the men of ten talents. We 
are to shape the thoughts of the thinker; give to coming 
leaders their philosophy of life and their conceptions of reli- 
gion, and play a supreme part in bringing in the Kingdom of 
our Master. Never, as it appears to me, since apostolic days, 
did Christian service demand such trained and consecrated 
leadership as it does this day." 

Secretary Board of Education, Methodist Episcopal Church. 

" It goes without saying that the future of the Association 
movement depends upon the character and quality of its 
leaders. The ' wrecks ' which in the past have so greatly dis- 
couraged the Christian business men and the workers of many 
cities and towns, have been caused, in almost every instance, 
by untrained and inexperienced leadership. So important is 
this matter that no man should be placed in the responsible 
position of secretary of any Association unless he has had the 
necessary training and experience which should reasonaby 
insure successful leadership." 




General Secretary, Montreal. 




OFFICERS OF THE CORPORATION 



ARTHUR D. WHEELER 

ROBERT WEIDENSALL L. WILBUR MESSER 

HENRY H. MARCUSSON 



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The Institution 

The Secretarial Institute and Training School of 
Young Men's Christian Associations is a Wisconsin cor- 
poration, practically all of its real estate being on the 
shores of Lake Geneva in that state. 

It has no capital stock. Its memberships can only be 
held by active members of Young Men's Christian 
Associations. These members are representative of 
the Associations in the various states of the Central West. 

Its organization under the active membership test; 
its endorsement by International conventions, and its 
representative management, place it among the regularly 
constituted and recognized Association enterprises. 

The Board of Directors is composed of employed and 
volunteer Association leaders from a number of states. 
That they are representative Association men is indicated 
by their official connections. 

Mr. Arthur D. Wheeler, the president, is a member 
of the Advisory Board of the Chicago Association, and 
was, for ten years, a member of the Illinois State Execu- 
tive Committee. 

Judge Selden P. Spencer is a member of the Board 
of Managers of the St. Louis Association, and a member 
of the Missouri State Executive Committee. 

Mr. Franklin W. Ganse is a member of the Com- 
mittee of Management of the Central Department, 
Chicago Association; a member of the Illinois State 

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Executive Committee, and a corresponding member of 
the International Committee. 

Mr. Edward P. Bailey is second vice-president of the 
Chicago Association, and an advisory member of the 
International Committee. 

Mr. George T. Coxhead and Mr. L. Wilbur Messer 
are general secretaries of the St. Louis and Chicago 
Associations, respectively. 

Messrs. I. E. Brown, E. E. Stacy, W. A. Magee, 
Frank E. Anderson, Frank H. Burt, and Henry E. Rose- 
vear are state secretaries, respectively, of Illinois, 
Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Kentucky. 

Mr. Robert Weidensall is the senior secretary of the 
International Committee. 

The business affairs of the corporation are committed 
to the Board of Business Management of which Mr. 
Arthur D. Wheeler is the chairman. The educational 
work is in the general charge of the Board of Educa- 
tional Control, of which Mr. I. E. Brown is chairman. 
The general plan of organization conforms to that of 
leading educational institutions. 

In its executive force this institution follows the 
ordinary Association plan as nearly as may be, the 
general secretary being the chief employed executive 
officer, and sustaining the usual relation of that officer 
to the public and to other Association activities. 




ADDITIONAL DIRECTORS 

FRANKLIN W. GANSE EDWARD P. BAILEY 

I. E. BROWN 
S. B. CHAPIN FRANK H. BURT 

SELDEN P. SPENCER 
W. A. MAGEE E. E. STACY 

FRANK E. ANDERSON 



GEORGE T. COXHEAD 
HENRY E. ROSEVEAR 



THE INSTITUTION ii 



Officers of the Corporation 

Arthur D. Wheeler, Chicago, President, 
Robert Weidensall, Chicago, Vice-President 
L. Wilbur Messer, Chicago, Recording- Secretary, 
Henry H. Marcusson, Chicago, Treasurer, 

Additional Directors 

I. E. Brown, Chicago. 
Franklin W. Ganse, Chicago. 
S. B. Chapin, Chicago. 
Edward P. Bailey, Chicago. 
Henry E. Rosevear, Louisville. 
E. E. Stacy, Indianapolis. 
Selden p. Spencer, St. Louis. 
Frank H. Burt, St. Louis. 
George T. Coxhead, St. Louis. 
Frank E. Anderson, Milwaukee. 
W. A. Magee, Des Moines. 

Board of Business Man- Board of Educational Control 



agement 



L E. Brown, 



Arthur D. Wheeler, Chairman. 

Chairman. FRANK H. BURT. 

Henry H. Marcusson. Walter M. Wood. 

Franklin W. Ganse. Winfield S. Hall, M. D. 

Selden P. Spencer. L. Wilbur Messer. 

S. B. Chapin. George T. Coxhead. 

Edward P. Bailey. John W. Hansel. 
L. Wilbur Messer. 

Employed Officers 

John W. Hansel, General Secretary, 

J. Sidney Hotton, Assistant General Secretary, 

G. QuiNCY DuNLOP, Lake Geneva, Foreman of the Grounds, 



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Faculty 

I. E. Brown, M. A., President of the Institute and School, 
Evidences of Christianity, Church History, the Bible and 
Science. 

L. Wilbur M^ss^'El^ Principal of the Secretarial Department, 
Principles and Methods of Association Work, Workers' 
Bible Training Class, Current Problems. 

WiNFiELD S. Hall, M. D., Ph. D. Principal of the Physical 
Department, Physiology of Exercise, Theoretical Kin- 
esiology. 

Walter M. Wood, A. B., Principal of the Educational 
Department, Educational work of the Association, 
Pedagogy. 

Henry F. Kallenberg, M. D., Associate Principal of the 
Physical Department, Physiology, Physical Examina- 
tion and Prescription of Exercise, Practice of Gym- 
nastics, Athletics and Aquatics. 

John W. Hansel, Synoptical and Inductive Bible Study, Nor- 
mal Personal Workers' Training Class. 

J. Sidney Hotton, M. A., Rhetoric, Rules of Deliberative 
Bodies, Proof Reading, Correspondence. 

James F. Gates, Ph. B., Committee Grganization, Association 
Finances. 

Arthur D. Wheeler, Ethics, Sociology. 

Charles J. Kurtz, M. D., Anatomy, First Aid to the Injured, 
Personal Hygiene. 



Special Instructors 



M. M. Parkhurst, D. D., Doctrinal Bible Study. 

William J. Parker, B. S., Special Lectures on College Asso- 
ciation Work and on the Development of the Active 
Member. 

Frank H. Burt, B. S., Personal Religious Work, Association 
Bible Study Department (Summer Term). 




OFFICERS OF INSTRUCTION 



L. WILBUR MESSER WINFIELD S. HALL, M.D. 

I. E. BROWN 
WALTER M. WOOD HENKY F. KALLENBERG, M.D. 



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W. E. Day, Physical Director ^ Dayton, O. Theory and Prac- 
tice of Athletics, Physical Department Economy (Summer 
Term). 

James Naismith, M. D., Professor of Physical Culture ^ Uni- 
versity of Kansas. Anatomy, Physiology, Hygiene, First 
Aid (Summer Term). 

George T. Coxhead, General Secretary, St. Louis. Associa- 
tion Business Management and Equipment (Summer 
Term). 

Albert J. Coats, Physical Director, Honolulu, H. I. Assistant 
Instructor in Gymnastics and Athletics (Summer Term). 



Ill 

Employed Leaders 

** As men of affairs have become connected with the work 
of the Young Men's Christian Association, they have realized 
the necessity of an organization of men of trained ability to 
manage its ever unfolding activities. The Association has 
come to be so much of a permanent social and religious factor 
in our American city and village life, its function is now so 
well defined and recognized that a certain definite training 
such as a lawyer, a doctor, or a clergyman would require for 
his profession has become necessary in Association work. 

"As these professional men need schools for preparation for 
their life work, so in the Association. From no other source 
can the great demand for educated, especially trained secre- 
taries be supplied. I believe most heartily in this training 
school idea and in the means being taken to further and to 
mature it. As the Association reaches human nature on all its 
sides, and especially in forming its highest ideals, its work 
should be carried on by the broadest, manliest, and best trained 
men in the community. The training school is an absolute 
necessity." 






The training of the employed leader in Association 
work is not only a necessity — the thorough training is a 
necessity. No superficial training should be tolerated 
for a life work so vital and so complicated as that of the 
Young Men's Christian Association secretary or director. 

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ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTORS 



FRANK H. BURT 
W. E. DAY 
WILLIAM J. PARKER 
J. SIDNEY HOTTON 



CHARLES J. KURTZ, M.D. 
ARTHUR D. WHEELER 
M. M. PARKHURST, D.D. 
JOHN \V. HANSEL 



JAMES F. GATES 
GEORGE T. COXHEAD 
JAMES NAISMITH, M.D. 
ALBERT J. COATS 



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Mr. Edwin F. See has emphasized the necessity of 
such a training for college men looking to this field, and 
insists "that the knowledge of Association history and 
methods, the practical study of sociology as applied to 
the special needs of young men, the scholarly course of 
instruction in the English Bible will be of the utmost 
service to a college graduate in his preparation for the 
secretaryship, while the instruction in anatomy and 
hygiene, in anthropometry, in physical examinations, 
and the prescription as well as the conduct of exercises, 
are simply indispensable to the college graduate looking 
forward to the physical directorship.'* 

A general education no matter how liberal is not 
sufficient for these distinctive Association callings. 
Large general culture concentered and rendered effec- 
tive by special training is the preparation which the 
Associations are more and more demanding. 

The work of this institution for the education of 
employed Association leaders is principally done in 
Chicago. Courses are conducted each year during eight 
months of fall, winter, and spring in the Central Build- 
ing of the Chicago Young Men's Christian Association. 

The courses provide for the special training of all 
employed officers, for their respective positions. 

Following the reasoning of other professional and 
technical schools, the location is ideal. Association and 
other religious activities abound. Opportunity is freely 
offered for study of and participation in practical work. 
The Chicago Association, with its City, Railroad, and 
Student Departments, of which the Central now has 
4,200 members and a superb equipment, in the building 
where the school is conducted, offers the best oppor- 
tunity for the study of Association methods. The 



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instructors are largely chosen from the experienced and 
successful Association leaders in active work. Chicago 
is also the headquarters of the State Committee of 
Illinois and of several of the International Secretaries, 
and the Training School is able to secure the assistance 
of leading specialists in the work in its different 
departments. 

The location, equipment, and instruction of this 
school are not only the very best for its purposes, but 
the conditions permit of their use on terms of the great- 
est economy. Such a plant, with such a faculty, main- 
tained independently, would cost several times the 
budget of the entire work of the institution. 

Eminent specialists from the great universities are 
readily accessible for courses of lectures on subjects that 
pertain to the work of the Association. 

Opportunities are constantly afforded the student of 
personal contact with both employed and volunteer 
leaders of experience. This touch of man with man is 
by no means the least part of such a training. 

All students are members of the Central Department 
and have access to all phases of its work and the use of 
its superior appliances. 

The length of the ordinary course is two full years, 
but this varies with the previous training of the student. 
Three terms of each year are held in Chicago, and the 
fourth at Lake Geneva. This summer term is held in 
July and August, and is as thorough in its work as any 
other part of the course; it also puts the students in 
touch with the large number of Association leaders who 
visit the encampment from all parts of the country, and 
with the recreative features of Lake Geneva. 

The course for the physical directorship is longer 




EMPLOYED OFFICERS 



JOHN \V. HANSEL 
J. SIDNEY HOTTON G. QUINCY DUNLOP 



EMPLOYED LEADERS 17 

than that for other positions, generally requiring three 
full years. The student must have a careful scientific 
training to fit him to prescribe exercises and advise 
habits of life for the young men who come under his 
care, if they are to develop and maintain their best 
health and strength. 

This is not the catalogue of the school, but enough 
has been said to suggest to the reader that the training 
of an Association expert rests on a broad, scientific basis, 
and is adapted to the different needs of the several 
employed officers. 

Courses of Instruction 

The courses of study, as arranged, contemplate the 
preparation of the student to become an intelligent and 
aggressive Christian worker, well informed on all depart- 
ments of Association effort, in addition to becoming a 
specialist in his own department. The study of the 
Bible is central and fundamental in the courses. Practical 
work occupies a prominent place throughout the courses. 
The subjects of instruction and training maybe grouped 
under the following general headings: 

I. The English Bible. 
II. Association History and Economy. 

III. Principles and Methods of Personal and Public Re- 

ligious Work among Men and Boys. 

IV. History and Evidences of Christianity. 

V. Physical Education and Physical Department Economy. 
Theoretical — Anatomy, Physiology, Anthropometry, 

Physical and Medical Examinations. 
Practical — Gymnastics, Athletics, Aquatics, Pedagog- 
ics of the same. 
VI. Association Educational Work — Theory, Observation and 
Practice. 



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VII. Sociology and Ethics. 

VIII. Study of and Participation in Actual Association Work. 
IX. Graduation Thesis. 



" The growth of lay co-operation in the work of the Christian 
church is in large measure due to the Young Men's Christian 
Association. The first necessity for effective lay work is the 
spirit of helpfulness, the desire to serve; the second necessity 
is good leadership. The great modern army of workers cannot 
be officered by the clergy. There are not enough of them to 
go around, and if there were, there are many phases of work 
which can be better done by laymen. These latter must be as 
carefully trained, though differently, as the clergy. Hence the 
need of training schools for Association secretaries and other 
Christian workers. The need of them is self-evident; and 
fortunately this need is being supplied. There is no better 
investment than the support and endowment of these training 
schools." 



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IV 

Volunteer Leaders 

Every Young Men's Christian Association must com- 
mand the confidence and support of the churches and 
of the business men of its community. To do this it 
must have their representatives enlisted in its work. No 
matter how faithful and efficient its employed officers 
may be, they cannot fully represent or influence those 
interests. 

Not only for what they represent, but for what they 
must do, the committee men of an Association form an 
all-important part of its working power. A strong 
Association with a weak body of volunteer leaders, or 
a weak Association with a strong body of volunteer 
leaders, would be equally hard to find. The one over- 
shadowing need in the great bulk of the Associations 
is a loyal, representative and intelligent committee force. 
Given this, and the other needs will be cared for to a 
certainty, and a successful work will result. 

To be loyal, these volunteer leaders must be in sym- 
pathy with all that builds up a strong manhood, and 
especially with the Christian aims of the Association. 
To be representative, they must be leaders in church 
and community. To be intelligent in Young Men's 
Christian Association work, requires more than a knowl- 
edge of what the local Association is doing. It is part 
of a complex and world-wide movement. To be a truly 
intelligent leader, the volunteer worker must understand 

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and participate in the work not only of his city, but in 
state, international, and foreign work, of which his local 
Association is apart; and to keep in touch with the other 
varied activities of the Association world. 

The common ways of attempting this have been by 
the reading of the periodical and permanent literature 
of the cause, and by attendance upon district, state, and 
international conventions. 

' But the best convention, while it stimulates and 
inspires, and emphasizes certain leading features, cannot 
supply any sustained or symmetrical training. To get 
this, the plan offered must provide an educative influence, 
more frequent, more detailed, and more comprehen- 
sive. This need is measurably met in what are called 
** conferences.** 

The Institute tries to maintain a balance between its 
work for the volunteer and the employed leader. It has 
occasional called conferences on particular phases of 
Association work in Chicago, where it enjoys facilities 
for conducting them similar to those which make its 
training-school work successful. It is believed that these 
conferences can be made an increasingly important part 
of the work done in Chicago. 

But the main work for the volunteer leaders is done 
on the grounds of the Institute at Lake Geneva. 

Each year in June, a ten-days' College Student Con- 
ference is held, attended by several hundred leading 
members of the College Associations of the Central 
West. This is not the place to enlarge on the great 
work which is being done in the name of Jesus Christ 
among the College men. As the leaders of these 
coming leaders meet to receive instruction in the Word 
of God, and in Association principles and methods, 




WILLIAM E. LEWIS 



VOLUNTEER LEADERS 21 

a lasting impetus is given not only to their indi- 
vidual Christian life, but to their interest in work for 
other young men. Each year many a student leaves 
the shores of the beautiful lake with a purpose and 
a knowledge for a life-long leadership in this form of 
Christian activity. This conference is a leading factor 
in developing uniform and efficient Association work in 
the colleges of these States. Each session has marked 
an epoch in the life of many a choice young man. The 
International Committee co-operates with the Institute 
in the conduct of this conference. 

This will be the fourth year of The Conference of 
Volunteer Workers in City, Town, and Railroad Asso- 
ciations. This also lasts for ten days. The attendance 
on this conference is of active leaders in Associations of 
the classes named, and the work done varies accordingly. 
The platform addresses, lectures, and discussions are for 
the education of the volunteer leaders who attend the 
conference, and cover not only the leading problems of 
the local Associations, but the history and principles of 
all Young Men's Christian Association Work. 

The steady increase in the interest and numbers of 
these two conferences proves that they are doing their 
designed work. The personal contact with successful 
employed and volunteer leaders is one of the chief gains 
from attendance upon these conferences. The educative 
value of personal contact with these experienced men, 
and the blessing of their religious influence, are strong 
factors in the general good accomplished. 

Two other features of the Lake Geneva side of this 
Institution should not be overlooked. The physical 
development of the delegates is not neglected. Light 
work is done in the gymnasium, and tennis, baseball, 



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swimming, rowing, and other athletic work is done with 
more or less system. Recreation is always abundantly 
provided for. Plenty of opportunity is given for relaxa- 
tion and social enjoyments of the best sorts, both for 
day and evening. 

It may truly be said that the work of the Institute on 
its grounds at Lake Geneva is another illustration of the 
Association's all-around activity. 



"The value of Itrained leadership should be a self-evident 
proposition. The amateur, at his best, is not regarded as being 
in the same class with the professional, and the difference is 
simply training. This principle applies in all life. Our Asso- 
ciation, being composed in theory of volunteers with trained 
executives, can only reach their highest proficiency when the 
volunteer himself has an intelligent, comprehensive view of 
the field and methods of the work under our organization. 
This can be gotten nowhere in my judgment so effectively as 
during a ten days' sojourn by the beautiful Lake of Geneva, 
listening to thoughtful teachers and communing with other 
volunteers from every section of our country, thus combining 
the theory of the teacher with the results of his co-workers." 



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GROUNDS — LAKE GENEVA 

RECEPTION HALL TABERNACLE 

DINING HALL 



V 

Historical 

The Secretarial Institute and Training School of 
Young Men's Christian Associations is a combination 
and a growth. Before 1896 there were two organizations, 
the Western Secretarial Institute of Lake Geneva, Wis- 
consin, and the Training School of Chicago. These 
worked together, with the same general secretary now 
employed, from 1890 to 1896. Indeed the idea of a 
training school in the Chicago Association building arose 
in 1890 in the minds of some of the Institute leaders. 
The wisdom of the combination and of the later con- 
solidation has been proven. 

The year 1890 was a year of great expansion in this 
work, seeing as it did, the starting of the training school, 
the securing of the general secretary by the Institute, 
the commencement of the summer school at Lake 
Geneva, the launching of the College Students' Confer- 
ence and the erection of the Lewis Memorial Tabernacle. 

The Western Secretarial Institute was incorporated 
in 1886. Its first session was held in 1884. 

Mr. Weldensall, still a director of the enterprise, had 
argued for the establishment of a training school for 
general secretaries as long ago as 1872. His article in 
the ** Watchman " in 1883 brought about the considera- 
tion of the matter by a number of general secretaries 
assembled at their international conference at Montreal 
in May, 1884. They appointed a committee to select a 

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place and arrange for an institute to be held that sum- 
mer. It was held at Lake Geneva from August i to 
14, 1884. This original institute program was held 
each year until 1898, in which year it was succeeded by 
the Conference of Volunteer Workers. 

William E. Lewis, of Milwaukee, State Secretary of 
the Young Men's Christian Associations of Wisconsin, 
was the first president of the Institute. Chosen in 1884, 
he served in this office until his death, which occurred 
on the grounds in August, 1890. He was succeeded by 
I. E. Brown, of Chicago, State Secretary of Illinois, who 
continued in the office until the recent reorganization of 
the Board in February, 1901. Arthur D. Wheeler is 
now president of the Corporation, and Mr. Brown is 
president of the Institute and School. 



" From personal knowledge regarding the work of the above 
institution, we are convinced that it is an agency of transcen- 
dent importance in the development and permanence of the 
Young Men's Christian Association. 

" Its work of furnishing a thoroughly trained leadership, both 
employed and lay, merits the substantial support of all who are 
interested in the advancement of the Association cause." 








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GROUNDS— LAKE GENEVA 

ATHLETIC FIELD GYMNASIUM 

TENNMS COURTS 



VI 

Results 

Three thousand of the brightest students from insti- 
tutions of higher learning have been strengthened in 
Christian character, have been given a knowledge of the 
history, principles, and genius of Association work, have 
carried into their colleges and universities a spirit of 
earnest, practical service, and have given an impetus to 
the Christian activities and to the intelligent study of the 
Bible, that has called forth the highest commendation of 
prominent educators and Christian leaders. 

Many volunteer workers in City Associations and a 
number of secretaries and physical directors received 
their inspiration for Christian service and their training 
for Association work at this gathering of college students. 

Five hundred men have attended the Summer School 
for Secretaries and Physical Directors. These men have 
come not alone from the states of the Middle West, but 
from the extremes of the country. North, South, East and 
West. Many have attended for several summers in suc- 
cession. Most of them have been engaged in Associa- 
tion work as employed officers. At present one hundred 
and fifty of these men are in the Association service. 

Three hundred and twenty active members of Asso- 
ciations have been enrolled in the Conference of Volun- 
teer Workers in City, Town and Railroad Associations. 
Speaking of the importance of this conference, Mr. E. L. 
Shuey, of Dayton, O., a member of The International 

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26 TRAINED LEADERS 

Committee, said: "The value of a detailed view of Asso- 
ciation history and work was demonstrated to every one 
who followed the course. Appreciation of the principles 
which have controlled our work, and the knowledge of 
the steps that have led to our present methods will make 
more intelligent and enthusiastic workers. I have seen 
no movement in our work in recent years that seems to 
me to promise more practical results or to offer a better 
opportunity to cultivate new workers than this Volunteer 
Conference." 

One hundred and ninety-two students have been 
enrolled in the regular courses in Chicago. Sixty-two 
have graduated. Fifty-one graduates and thirty-three 
non-graduates, eighty-four in all, are now employed in 
Association work as follows: Thirty-one as general 
secretaries, thirty-five as physical directors, two as educa- 
tional directors, four are secretaries of state committees, 
and two are international foreign secretaries. Twenty- 
two of these men are located in Illinois, fourteen of whom 
are in Chicago. Eight are located in Indiana, five in 
Iowa, five in Kentucky, four in Missouri, three in New 
York State, three in Michigan, two each in Ohio, 
Nebraska, Louisiana and Texas, one each in Kansas, 
Mississippi, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Colorado, Wiscon- 
sin, Virginia, West Virginia, North Dakota, South Dakota, 
Oregon, Alabama, Maryland, District of Columbia, and 
Minnesota, and one each in Canada, China, Ceylon and 
Hawaii. 

During the school year just closed, there has been a 
total enrollment of seven hundred and sixteen: In the 
Training School, forty-one; in the College Conference, 
four hundred and thirty-three, from one hundred and 
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RESULTS 27 

Workers, one hundred and forty-four, from forty Asso- 
ciations; in the Summer School, eighty-six, from twenty 
states; and in the Mid-winter Institute, twelve. 

A comparison of results gathered by The International 
Committee shows that of the non-training school men 
who entered Association work from 1887 to 1896 
inclusive, only nineteen per cent are still in the work, 
while of the men who entered from this school during 
the same period, most of whom were non-graduates, 
fifty-five per cent are still in the work. The school's 
own record of its graduates during the ten years of its 
history shows that all entered the work and that eighty- 
four per cent still remain in it. 



" The leadership of the Young Men's Christian Association 
was intrusted in the beginning exclusively to volunteer laymen, 
who administered the Association work during their leisure 
time. The growing dimensions of the work, however, created 
a demand for employed officers, who gradually came into their 
present subordinate relation to the leadership. As the Asso- 
ciations have developed their work the need of training for 
both classes of Association leaders has become more and more 
pronounced. In response to this need secretarial training 
schools were established and for many years have been justly 
valued by the Associations. They have abundantly demon- 
strated their right to existence as an invaluable part of the 
Association work, though up to the present time the great 
majority of leaders, both among laymen and secretaries, have 
received training outside of school or institute. The wise 
emphasis laid by The Secretarial Institute and Training School 
upon the training in school and institute of both these classes 
of leaders constitutes one of its strongest claims to the good 
opinion and gratitude of all interested in this world-wide work 
for young men." 




VII 

The Outlook 

If in this telling age merely 

** To be living is sublime," 
it is far more sublime to live so as to fill full the measure 
of one's usefulness. This is the age of the ''strenuous 
life." It is not haste that is needed but intensity. To 
move rapidly is not of so great importance as to make 
every movement count. 

The growth of the Young Men's Christian Association 
has been marvelous. In a little more than fifty years it 
has come to be universally recognized as one of the 
greatest achievements of the nineteenth century church. 
Especially is this true of the American Young Men's 
Christian Association, where that type of Association 
work has been developed, which is being adopted by the 
Associations in all lands. It has naturally taken the 
place of leadership in the extension of the Association 
work throughout the world, but its career has just begun. 
It is now entering the period of its largest opportunity. 
With every sunrise its horizon is widening. On every 
side doors are opening and hands are beckoning to enter 
in and possess. 

In a recent address entitled ''A Vision of Association 
Extension," Richard C. Morse said, **The Association's 
right to existence and favor has been well established, 
but the period of its rapid growth is ahead." "Where- 
ever the Association now exists the boy's work doubles the 

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field now open to it." "Association workers believe that 
only a beginning has been made in the city work west of 
the Mississippi and the Great Lakes and south of the 
Ohio and the James. The regions beyond in the student, 
railroad, army, navy, colored, and Indian departments 
and among lumbermen, miners, and other industrial 
classes of young men are so broad and needy that we 
realize that only a mere beginning has been made of 
Association work among all of these classes." Continu- 
ing he gives as a vision of the near future the Associa- 
tion accommodated, "not in four hundred, but in at least 
one thousand buildings; instead of a regiment of em- 
ployed officers fourteen hundred strong, several regi- 
ments numbering at least five thousand *good men 
and true' ; a physical department with one thousand 
gymnasiums; educational classes, in which between 
one and two hundred thousand are enrolled; a rail- 
road department established at one thousand division 
points and enrolling a half million railroad men; a 
student department with one hundred thousand student 
members; a colored men's department in one hundred 
schools and colleges and in three times as many cities: 
an army and navy department offering Christian wel- 
come and fellowship to every soldier and sailor at every 
army post and naval station, on every ship and in every 
camp; a work among all classes of boys and young men, 
providing wholesome recreation and Christian hospi- 
tality; a religious work in which an ever-increasing 
number of boys and young men are hearing and yielding 
to the message of the Gospel, eagerly and devoutly 
studying the Bible, and engaging in prayerful personal 
work; and finally the vision of this many-sided. Christ- 
like work transplanted to every continent." We believe 



30 TRAINED LEADERS 

that this is a vision, not a dream. To realize it the 
Association needs but to keep up its present rate of 
progress. 

Where shall they come from, this army of men who are 
to direct this world-wide and highly-developed work? It 
is acknowledged that the employed leader in the Ameri- 
can Association economy, more than any other one 
factor has, under God, raised it to the place of supremacy 
in the Association work of the world. Scores and 
hundreds of young men will be needed at once; men of 
native ability with an education and training that will 
grasp the history, principles, and technique of Associa- 
tion work, a preparation that will constitute each man 
an expert in his particular Association calling. To meet 
this need, the Association Training Schools at Spring- 
field and Chicago must be generously supported and 
endowed. The highest Association wisdom should be 
enlisted in strengthening the courses of study, and in 
securing instructors of the first ability. Each inter- 
national, state, and local secretary should constitute 
himself an agent of these schools with special reference 
to securing suitable men to pursue these courses of 
training. For more than two years the schools have 
each been seeking a man to be sent out for this purpose. 
It is hoped that the day is not far distant when The 
International Committee will place a secretary of superior 
ability in the field, whose duty shall be to seek men of 
peculiar natural qualifications for different phases of 
Association work and secure their attendance at one of 
the schools. The money expended in putting such a 
man in the East and another in the West for this pur- 
pose would yield large returns to the Association cause. 

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at Chicago has been devoting most careful thought to 
the raising of the requirements of admission, and to 
arranging the courses of instruction upon a plan that 
will appeal to and meet the requirements of college 
graduates and young business men of large ability and 
attainments. The summer courses at Lake Geneva have 
been extended and materially strengthened, and this 
summer session has been made a fourth term in the 
school year. The courses are so planned as to give the 
student of liberal education full credit for work covered 
and Association experience gained previous to entering 
the school, thus enabling him to secure the advanced 
standing to which his ability and previous attainments 
entitle him. The practical training, also, in connection 
with the course, will be made still more thorough, and 
will be given close supervision by the director of that 
department. 

With profound thankfulness to God for the marked 
favor, the munificent blessings and the measure of suc- 
cess that has attended the efforts of this institution, and 
with deep appreciation of the generous self-denying 
co-operation and support of the many friends of its 
work, we advance into the second Association half- 
century not with any feelings of boastfulness, but confi- 
dent, buoyant, purposeful, and with an unwavering faith 
in God and in a God-inspired humanity. Because sure 
of these, sure also of a larger measure of success, not 
only for this but for all similar institutions, and for 
every department of Association effort conducted in the 
spirit of Christ. 



Endowment 

It is desirable that the institution should be early 
put upon a permanent financial foundation. Gifts and 
bequests are solicited for the following urgent needs: 

For the establishment of a chair of Biblical instruction. 

For the establishment of a chair of physical education. 

For the enlargement and maintenance of a Biblical 
and technical library. A larger collection of books on 
physical education is very much desired. 

For general endowment. 



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